Find an Opportunity
Sources of Funding
Domestic
The Do
Something BRICK Awards
If you're 25 or under, and have been working on a problem
in your own community, you could win a $10,000 grant and pretend
you're a celebrity at a "star-studded
gala."
Echoing Green Fellowship
Program
Echoing Green provides financial and technical support during a
two-year fellowship
not for full-time students, but for individuals or
partnerships with new and exciting ideas for tackling social
problems.
Everett Public Service
Internship Program
The Everett program provides a $230/wk stipend for ten-week summer
internships at participating organizations, the names of which can
be found at their website. Most seem to be in New York and
Washington, D.C. Students apply to the organization, including the
information that they're applying for an Everett position,
and if they're lucky they get a position and money.
Herbert
Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship was established in 1987 to provide college graduates with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security by working with nonprofit, public-interest organizations.
Green Corps Environmental
Leadership Training Program
Green Corps is a non-profit Field School for Environmental Organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to identify and train the next generation of environmental leaders. The program begins in August with the Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and concludes with graduation in August, the following year. 35 people are invited to participate in the program.
An award of $2000.00 is given to university students who propose projects that will involve them in some aspect of public service in the U.S. or abroad. The award is meant to enable students to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay job or internship during a summer or a semester. Preference will be given applicants who have already found such a position but who require additional funding.
The Paul & Daisy Soros
Fellowships for New Americans
The Soros Fellowships provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Fellowship provides half tution and $20,000 maintenance for two years. Candidates must be either holders of green cards, naturalized citizens, or children of naturalized citizen parents.
Potentially International
McGill Lawrence Internship Award
Howard
R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award
The Campus Compact, an organization to which Reed belongs,
sponsors this award for public service. Each member president can
nominate one undergraduate student for the award, and five students
total are chosen to receive recognition of their achievements in
the past year and $1,500 to help support their service program.
The
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
"The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides an
annual stipend of $10,000 for a
graduating college senior to pursue public service anywhere
in the world. This allows recipients to engage in a meaningful
public service activity for one year before proceeding on to
graduate school or a career."
Strictly International
Fulbright Grants for Educational and
Cultural Exchange
The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding
between the peoples of the United States and other countries
through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. This is
administered through Reed; for further instructions, see Jo Cannon
in Eliot 422.
Rotary
International Ambassadorial Scholarships
In order to further international understanding and friendly
relations among people of different countries, the Ambassadorial
Scholarships program includes scholarships for undergraduate
students. The scholars are supposed to servce as
"ambassadors of goodwill" to their hosts and give
presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other
groups. When they come back home, scholars share their experiences
with local Rotarians and others.
Volunteers for Peace International
Workcamps
Provides consultation and placement service for workcamp hosts and
volunteers.
CIEE Scholarships
The Council on International Educational Exchange offers
scholarships for its own exchange and volunteer programs. See the
website for more information.
Thomas J.
Watson Fellowship
Graduating seniors are nominated by their schools for a year of
travel in an unfamiliar country and a $22,000 stipend. A number of
Reed students have gotten this fellowship over the years. You have
to have your own creative and personally significant project in
mind: no formal study, no full-time training, and no submission to
a volunteer organization's schedule.
AIF
Service Corps Fellowship
The American India Foundation aims to build bridges between
American and India by sending talented/skilled young Americans to
work with NGOs in India through its Service Corps Fellowship. The
ten-month program includes training, supervision, a stipend that
covers food, housing and other needs, and the opportunity have a
significant impact on a community's welfare. Fellows must
have an
undergraduate degree before the program starts.
Freeman Asia
Awards
The primary goal of the Freeman-ASIA Program is to increase the
number of American undergraduates who study in East and Southeast
Asia, by providing students with the information and need-based
financial assistance they will need. Awardees will be expected to
share their experiences with their home campus to encourage study
abroad by others, and to spread understanding of Asia in their home
communities. Eligible study abroad programs must be country-based
and a minimum of 12 weeks for the spring semester. Eligible
students are U.S citizens or permanent residents, enrolled as
undergraduates in good academic standing in an accredited U.S.
college or university, and currently receiving financial aid or
have verifiable need for financial assistance to study abroad in
Asia.
Bridging
Project Scholarships for Study Abroad in Japan
The ATJ Bridging Project offers scholarships to American students
participating in semester- or year-long study abroad programs in
Japan. Undergraduate students majoring in any field of study are
eligible to apply for these scholarships. Japanese language study
is not a prerequisite. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or
permanent residents and be enrolled as undergraduates in a college
or university in the U.S. Recipients of Briding Scholarships will
recieve a stipend of $2,500 (semester long programs) or $4,000
(academic year program).
Searchable Databases
Cornell
Cornell's Einaudi Center for International Studies lists a
large number of funding opportunities, searchable by category.
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